The road from the projects to private jets is long and treacherous, often marked by sweat and bloodshed. A blacklight might reveal those stains, but it couldnt tell their story. Stalley illuminates the truth behind every mark on Blacklight, the Ohio legends collaborative album with prolific Michigan producer Apollo Brown. The Midwest meeting of supreme lyrical talent and producorial mastery results in one of the most powerful and emotionally raw albums of Stalleys career. He offers diaries of hood traumas and their lingering effects, formulas for overcoming systemic poverty and societal prejudice, and instructions on how to thrive as an independent artist. Brown scores every bar with soulful and melancholy beats that sound like sunlight cracking through concrete skies.

Blacklight leaves no stretch of Stalleys journey unaccounted for. He vacillates between attaining higher consciousness and the drive to acquire everything he was deprived of in yo